So the story all started with a road trip from Salt Lake City to Denver. We took a route through southern Wyoming, and I started the drive at about 11 at night. Already a bad idea. My passenger took over about 4 hours into it. He had been on some new medication, and wasn't quite used to it yet, but I had made the drive already the previous morning to pick him up, and hadn't been able to sleep yet, so I thought it'd be safer for him to drive anyway. I was wrong.
Less then 10 minutes after he took the wheel, he dropped food into his lap, and was distracted enough by it to veer into the fence on the side of the road. It scraped up the side of the car pretty badly, and he went between the fence and a wooden light post, which also took both side view mirrors clean off. I was upset of course. It was a new car afterall. But I was glad we were both safe. Because he'd been driving without insurance, and we were in the middle of absolutely nowhere, and decided to try to get it fixed without insurance involved first. Needless to say though, he was no longer allowed to drive. The adrenaline from the crash had me wide awake for another couple hours at least so on we went. This was my best option at the time. A tow would have cost an absolute fortune in either direction, and I had to be at work the next day.
So if you've never taken this route... Dont. Ever. The middle of nowhere portion of this trip is legitimately 4.5 hours straight (at least with the construction speed limit) that is through a mixer of desert, mountains, and nothingness. Not a single gas station or town in the entire span, so I'm just glad we filled up right before we hit it. It was in the middle of the mountain portion of nothingness that things got extremely... odd. I knew I was tired, but I had redbulls for days, and thought I could handle it. I've had extreme insomnia since I was an infant, so feeling tired wasn't new to me. This changed when I first saw the moon.
It looked like the mountain was on fire. Occasionally it would dissappear behind a mountain, on the windey road, but everytime it showed again, it looked enormous. Like it was simply too big to be the moon. I'd heard of and seen blood moons before, but this seemed so off. There was a tangible thickness that hung in the air, and my passenger was no longer able to sleep. I felt less crazy when he finally mentioned it, and how it also seemed off. Finally we were officially creeped out when we passed a taller mountain ridge... and the red moon stayed in front of it.
On our side of that mountain. My mind couldn't even comprehend what had just happened, so finally I realized we needed to pull over, coz we must be hallucinating. I stopped the car in the middle of nowhere land, no cities or lights, or ANYTHING for 100s of miles both directions at this point. I picked a spot where we could see the moon in full, with zero obstructions anywhere near it. The atmosphere was unbelievably thick, and we rolled down the windows for some fresh air.
It was here that I began snapping photos out my window, just because the moon was so odd looking. I put my phone away when the moon had turned out of its blood red color (over about 20 mins) and tried to rest for a moment and collect my thoughts.
Instead, I noticed a little light, like a big star or a satellite, by the moon. This light kept moving to, and from the moon, in a strange pattern. Again, I was SO glad that my passenger spoke up first. Realizing how impossible it was for any known airship either of us had heard of to move that fast, or in that many directions, we proceeded to realize we were basically sitting ducks. Not a single other car had passed in the time wed sat in the dark. I threw the car in drive, and got the fuck outta there.
No matter how tired I was, the uneasiness of that spot was just too much. It followed the rest of the 2 hours to the next town, where we finally hit a rest stop, and I could actually rest enough to sleep. The whole way there though, I had begun seeing that light by the moon dashing around the front of the car now and again. Then other shapes popped out of nowhere into my sight, only to dissappear a moment after. I've never been so scared in my life. Which was probably why I never thought to look at my photos until it became necessary to clear some space in my phones memory... I couldn't believe I'd actually caught something.
Remember that the moon was high enough in the sky to have nothing else around it in the whole shot. I saw this light in person, and am amazed it was big enough to even capture, but the camera seems to have almost amplified it's brightness. http://ift.tt/2fXDvcx
I am glad I haven't felt anything like that since. I only hope I never will again. Feel free to chime theories. Not feeling crazy might be nice...
UPDATE: So since this experience, I have seen this same light a couple more times. Each time, in separate place in the sky. I'm thinking I need to upgrade my phone, or buy a quality camera attatchment, to see if i can get better quality photos. Not gunna lie though, I'm getting extremely tired of dealing with this in general. I'm starting to think this may be personal, or maybe I'm just starting to notice it more because I saw it so clearly that one time. I am starting to feel a bit weirded out by the fact that the last two occurrences were within a month of eachother. Each time I see this thing, it's nighttime, and I keep getting a sinking feeling of being watched or just the general heaviness in the air like that first time, before I finally notice the light. Thankfully, I haven't been in the middle of nowhere the last two times though, as I think that added to the scariness of that first encounter, and haven't had to deal with the hallucinations afterwards ever again (thank god).
The first 3 are the light over a house. The lights of the house turned on when I got close so try to ignore those.
The rest are over a funeral home, and in both instances, it looked like just a really bright star or a planet at first. The uneasiness of that first encounter though, made me look closer and realize that it moves, and the photos capture some of the strange ways the light warps and changes.
I dunno guys... this is just way over my head at this point, and I keep just wanting a better explanation.
Submitted December 27, 2016 at 03:15AM by BLACK_SHEPHERD http://ift.tt/2hoZX0H
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